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Test 4 Flashcards

1
Q

Where was the official alphabet of Athens adopted from?

A

Miletos

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2
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Where was lyric poetry mostly produced?

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Island of Lesbos

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3
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Who is the most famous female poet of ancient Greece?

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Sappho

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4
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What are the epics?

A

Expansions on the Iliad and Odyssey by other authors

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5
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Who is Ekhidna?

A

Mother of the monsters

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6
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Who thought the primary building block of the universe was water?

A

Thales

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7
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What does philosophia mean?

A

Love of knowledge

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8
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What did Anaximander think the primary principle of matter was?

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“Boundless” (apeiron)

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9
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What was the astronomy of the world according to Anaximander?

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Full circles around the earth with rings filled with fire, with holes we can see when it passes over

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10
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What did Anaximenes think the primary principle was?

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Air, all the elements are at different stages of density

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11
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Which philosopher has an issue with Homer and Hesiod and why?

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Xenophanes of Kolophon - attributing immoral behaviour of man to the gods

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12
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Primary principle belief of Herakleitos?

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No single element is the principle, there are interchange of opposites that balance each other

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13
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Beliefs of Parmenides?

A

Logic is only tool to know the world, observation is unreliable
- there is one single and unchanging reality that can be understood with reason

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14
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What was Zeno known for?

A

His paradoxes on the impossibility of motion

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15
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Beliefs of Empedokles?

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  • everything produced by the mixing and separation of four elements and moved by opposing forces of strife and love, which makes them separate and unite
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16
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What is atomoi?

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Indivisible, for them to move there has to be space

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17
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What is Pythagoras known for?

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Leading a community who had to follow strict rules around moral and dietary restrictions

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18
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Characteristic of early philosophy?

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Use of logical reasoning to explain the natural world and the primary principle without supernatural causes

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19
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Which sophist spoke empathically about peithos?

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Gorgias

20
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Who wrote the textbook on art of speaking?

A

Teisias and Korax from Syracuse

21
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What does peithos mean?

A

Persuasion

22
Q

Who invented city-blocks?

A

Hippodamos

23
Q

Sophokles’ technical manual?

A

Tragedy

24
Q

Iktonos’ technical manual?

A

Building the Parthenon

25
Q

Hippodamos’ technical manual?

A

Dividing city into blocks
best form of constitution

26
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Polykleitos’ technical manual?

A

Symmetry of the human body

27
Q

Protagoras’ beliefs?

A

Man is the measure of all things

28
Q

What is nomos?

A

Custom, law, culture

29
Q

What is phusis?

A

Nature

30
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What is historia?

A

Research, inquiry

31
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What is logographoi?

A

Prose writers, compilers of genealogical, ethongraphic, and geograpgical material, also including mythical traditions

32
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Who is the father of history?

A

Herodotus

33
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What was Herodotus interested in?

A

Human geography and the customs of foreign people

34
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What did Thucydides write on?

A

the Peloponnesian War

35
Q

Who was the Great Dionysia supervised by?

A

Arkhon eponymous

36
Q

Khoregos

A

Chorus-leader/sponsor

37
Q

Submissions of the tragic poets?

A

3 tragedies and a satyr play

38
Q

Crane systen used to lower in statues of the gods?

A

Deus ex machina

39
Q

Who wrote Antigone?

A

Sophokles

40
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What does tragedy come from?

A

Song of goats

41
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What is the only surviving trilogy?

A

The Oresteia

42
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Main event of the oresteia?

A

Orestes and Elektra avenge their father by killing their mother

43
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Main event of Antigone?

A

She breaks the law to bury her brother who is seen as a traitor

44
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Main events of Medeia?

A

She takes revenge by murdering the children she had with Jason

45
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What is the only surviving satyr play?

A

Cyclops by Euripides

46
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What is tekhne?

A

Word for art, but anything that requires skill, experience, and application

47
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Developments of Athenian pottery?

A

Protogeometric, geometric, black figure, red figure

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